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Ten Follies

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 23, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 33.

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Ten Follies.

1. To think the more a man eats, the fatter and stronger he will become.
2. To believe the more hours children study at school the faster they learn.
3. To conclude that if exercise is good for the health, the more violent or exhausting it is, the more good is done.
4. To imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained.
5. To act upon the presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in.
6. To argue that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better, is “good for” the system, without regard to ulterior effects.
7. To eat without any appetite, or to continue to eat after it has been satisfied, merely to gratify the taste.
8. To eat a hearty supper for the pleasure experienced during the brief time it is passing down the throat, at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep, and a weary waking in the morning.
9. To remove a portion of the covering immediately after exercise, when the most stupid drayman in New York knows that if he does not put a cover on his horse the moment he ceases work in the winter, he will lose him in a few days by pneumonia.
10. To contend that because the dirtiest children in the street, or highway, are hearty and healthy, therefore it is healthy to be dirty; forgetting that continuous daily exposure to out door air in joyous unrestrained activities is such a powerful agency for health that those who live thus are well, in spite of rags and filth.
He who fails to control his appetite, yields to the greatest servitude.